tiny thoughts

the micro-blog version of “Taking Thoughts Captive” with brief quotes, fleeting thoughts, and other ephemera from the cutting room floor...

“An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in High School to teaching remedial English in college.”

— Joseph Sobran

“People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.”

— John Butler Yeats

“Beware the man of a single book.”

— Thomas Aquinas

“Never confuse movement with action.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.”

— Albert Einstein